Systems Engineer II with Security Clearance

For more than a decade, Karthik Consulting has been a reliable and trusted advisor to our Government customers, providing independent and unbiased recommendations and solutions to mitigate risk and help solve IT issues. We bring the innovation, passion, and agility of the commercial sector to meet the unique challenges of this competitive space. Karthik Consulting is seeking Systems Engineer - Level II with the below skillset.

Systems Engineer - Level II
Fulltime with Karthik Consulting
Location: San Diego, CA
Clearance: Active Top Secret/SCI  Active Top Secret/SCI or TS/SCI Eligible with completed Tier 5 investigation at time of submission
 Minimum of three (3) years of demonstrated experience in systems engineering and continuous software sustainment, utilizing modern Agile methodologies to ensure seamless delivery and operational stability in production environments.

Qualified experience must encompass systems engineering activities such as architectural oversight, requirements traceability, and system integration within a secure environment, alongside continuous software sustainment tasks including operational support, proactive vulnerability management, and technical debt remediation.

Candidates must demonstrate active utilization of Agile frameworks, such as Scrum, Kanban, or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) tailored to defense software environments, and a proven ability to push software updates to live production environments with zero or near-zero downtime and minimal operational disruption.
 Minimum of two (2) years of recent (last 5 yrs), demonstrated operational experience in enterprise server administration for both Linux and Windows operating systems, including the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of scalable virtualized environments (e.g., VMware vSphere, AWS, etc.).

Demonstrated proficiency in executing continuous monitoring and implementing rigorous DISA STIG compliance to fulfill stringent cybersecurity and Information Assurance (IA) mandates.
 To qualify, the candidate must satisfy the requirements for 'Intermediate Proficiency' for the '451 - System Administrator' role listed in the DoD 8140 Dashboard at the time of proposal and maintain eligibility for privileged/administrative system access at all times.